by Don Ingwerson Everyone seems to be affected by fear in some way or another, but looking at fear and its causes isn’t intended to create more fear, but to show that it need not be harmful. Fear is self imposed but so intimately entwined in the individual that it seems as if it were as much a part of
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by Don Ingwerson While establishing goals for the 2013 year, an article by Deepak Chopra titled, “The big idea(s) for 2013: A Critical Mass of Consciousness” caught my attention. As I read further, I realized that a goal has a better chance of being successful if it is in concert with the efforts of others. Chopra successfully makes this point
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by Don Ingwerson Article first published in the U-T San Diego. Amid the nation-wide debate about health care and each person’s search for a safe, effective, and affordable approach is the realization that being healthy is an individual responsibility and personal endeavor. A synopsis of an article in The Atlantic by Dr. David H. Freedman says, “the medical profession kept
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by Don Ingwerson As a life-long educator, I get excited when new discoveries are made that show how to maintain health and be freer from physical and mental limitations. My most recent encouragement came from the new book Super Brain, which supports the idea that the brain is important to our health in a number of newly discovered ways. These
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by Don Ingwerson Medical overtreatment is leading us to “be sicker and poorer” according to Shannon Brownlee, acting director of the health policy program at the New America Foundation. Brownlee describes the medical scenario that leads her to this conclusion as: “Sometimes the test leads you down a path, a therapeutic cascade, where you start to tumble downstream to more
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A guest post written by Ingrid Peschke, Health blogger, legislative liaison for Christian Science and spirituality in Massachusetts, Christian Science practitioner. For today’s news and culture update, here are 3 ways to get you thinking more about your health: 1. Take a vacation! Getting away, unplugging…it can all add up to better concentration, less stress, and other health implications. But
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by Don Ingwerson While serving as a public school administrator, I dealt directly with district leadership who would often direct teachers to take care of all educational instruction. Homework was generally discouraged because it was thought that parents might confuse students, since new methods were unfamiliar to parents. Remember modern math versus traditional math, look-and-say reading programs, whole language instruction,
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by Don Ingwerson First published in the Redlands Daily Facts. I’ve noticed more discussion lately on who should be in charge of decisions regarding patient care – the patient or the physician – and whether a patient’s religious beliefs affect that care. Along those lines, I recently had the opportunity to join representatives of other faiths at Loma Linda University
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Guest post written by Anne Cooling For a long time our country has been using predominately one type of healthcare, but more frequently the public is turning toward the successful use of alternative medicines. Deepak Chopra, MD states in “Medicine’s Great Divide – The view from the Alternative Side” that, “Over a decade ago, …the New England Journal of Medicine
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by Don Ingwerson Previously published September 27, 2011, in the Laguna Beach Patch Every once in awhile an article captures my imagination as to what being unlimited might mean in daily experience. When I start thinking about being unlimited, I am inspired to contemplate – What if? Deepak Chopra spurred that feeling in me with an article in the Huffington
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